Monday, 2 December 2013

Blog Tour: For Real by Chelsea M. Cameron

Tell Me About It
Two people. One fake relationship. What could go wrong?

When virgin Shannon Travers gets fed up with her friends demanding that she find a boyfriend, she enlists the help of tattooed, mohawk-rocking graphic design student Jett. He’s more than happy to play along with their Fake Relationship, including the Ten Rules of Fake Dating that control-freak Shannon comes up with. Even if he likes to violate them. Repeatedly.

But what happens when Fake Dating starts to feel… not fake anymore? Will Shannon be willing to let go and embrace the first thing in her life that’s ever felt REAL?

My Thoughts
I had not heard of Chelsea M. Cameron or For Real before so when I got the chance to review a copy I had to take a quick look to see what the book was about before I accepted, and after seeing the gorgeous picture and reading the synopsis I quickly filled in the form to request a copy. The whole idea of fake dating had me interested in how this was going to be played out and how far the fake dating would go.
A night out with the girls with the aim of finding someone for Shannon to hook up with ends with a fight, and Shannon going home with Jett to prove a point to Hazel and her friends. What starts out as a lesson to teach others, quickly turns into fake dating and a good friendship.

I fell in love with For Real the minute I began reading, I love their idea behind it and even though I have read books that have done this before, For Real still feels unique and individual. The ending of the book is predictable, but the journey to get to the end wasn't as predictable as I imagined it to be.
One thing I didn't like how Shannon's friends pressured her into doing the deed. I thought it was selfish and wrong for them to do this, and I am glad that Shannon didn't immediately forgive them, in fact it takes a while for the full forgiveness to happen.

For Real had me hooked from the very beginning and it only took me a few hours to read, and by the time I had reached the end I really didn't want to finish reading. I enjoyed reading all the little quirks that Shannon and Jett had together, from movie watching, to chair shopping, which definitely made me laugh, and while their relationship was fake to others, you can see the sparks fly between this duo. I love how Jett is there for Shannon when she needs a shoulder to cry on, and I love how Shannon accepts the crazy Javier as part of her small group of friends. Every chapter of For Real only had me wanting more and I am so glad to see that there is another book to come in this series. While there is no information about it at the time of posting this review, I really would love to get to look inside Javier a bit more.

Chelsea M. Cameron is a YA/NA New York Times/USA Today Best Selling author from Maine. Lover of things random and ridiculous, Jane Austen/Charlotte and Emily Bronte Fangirl, red velvet cake enthusiast, obsessive tea drinker, vegetarian, former cheerleader and world's worst video gamer. When not writing, she enjoys watching infomercials, singing in the car and tweeting (this one time, she was tweeted by Neil Gaiman). She has a degree in journalism from the University of Maine, Orono that she promptly abandoned to write about the people in her own head. More often than not, these people turn out to be just as weird as she is.

Her New Adult Contemporary Romance titles include My Favorite Mistake, which has been bought by Harlequin along with a sequel, My Sweetest Escape (January 28, 2014), Deeper We Fall and Faster We Burn and For Real (November 14, 2013) and the novella, Christmas Catch (November 1, 2014).

Her Young Adult books include Nocturnal, Nightmare, Neither and Neverend (The Noctalis Chronicles) and Whisper, the first in The Whisper Trilogy. The second and third books in the series, Silence and Listen, will be out in 2014.

Her Adult Contemporary Romance titles include Sweet Surrendering, and coming soon, Surrendering to Us and Dark Surrendering.

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